Presentation at: Meeting global food needs with lower emissions: IPCC report findings on climate change mitigation in agriculture A dialog among scientists, practitioners and financiers April 16, 2014 World Bank, Washington, DC Following the April 13th release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Mitigation, including Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), this event will provided an opportunity to listen to IPCC authors summarize their findings and for all participants to join in a dialog with practitioners and financiers to discuss actionable steps for mitigation in the agricultural sector. The event was a joint effort of the World Bank, the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

1. Meeting global food needs with lower
emissions:
Costa Rica’s Zero Emission Policy and Agricultural
NAMAs for Coffee and Livestock
Giovanna Valverde
Director of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
Costa Rica
April 16, 2014
World Bank, Washington, DC

2. ZERO EMISSIONS PUBLIC POLICY
• Last month creation of the Carbon National Committee
• Development of domestic voluntary Carbon Market (UCCs)

3. State Policy for the Agricultural sector and
Rural Development of Costa Rica 2010-2021
Competitivity
Innovation and
Technological
Development
Rural Territory
Management
and Family
Agriculture
Climate Change
and Agro
Environmental
Management
Pillars

4. IV Pillar of
Agricultural
Public Policy
focuses on
Climate
Change
Adaptation: Global
Adaptation Forum,
Irrigation Agenda,
Water/SENARA.
Mitigation: CN, Low
Emissions National
Livestock Strategy,
NAMAs.
Vulnerability and
risk management.

7. Livestock NAMA

8. Costa Rica Livestock Sector.
Fuente: Mapa de cobertura de la Tierra, 1992, convenio IMN, MAG, DGF, IGN
There are 45,780 livestock
farms,
that occupy 1,863,657 ha, which
represents 35.5% of national
territory.
Forested areas within livestock
farms:
•grown significantly in the last 30
years
•450,000 ha (24.2% of livestock
dedicated areas)
•Livestock contributes
approx. to 1.5% of GDP
•14% of the Costa Rican
labor force

12. • January, 2014:
communication of the
organization chart for the
LELS and its
implementation.
Support to the
National Low Emissions
Livestock Strategy
(LELS)
CNG
PITTA
Scientific
group
LELS
Round
Table
Regional Committees
Technical /Management
Politics
Technical/scientific
Operative

13. Coffee NAMA and value chain
Producers
Coffee
Mills
Exports
Large
commercial
coffee mills
International
Market
National
Market
50,608 approx.
producers
1,9 Ha/producer
91% delivers less
than 100 fanegas
(46k )
203 coffee mills
68% small (<3000
fanegas)
40% of production
from the
cooperatives

15. Coffee Nama Specific objectives
• Agroforestry systems (PSA) are promoted to coffee
farmers. (Indicator: 7.500 coffee ha with shadow trees)
• Coffee processers have implemented new low carbon
technologies reducing GHG emissions, i.e. energy
efficiency, biomass aerobic treatment of residues (pulp)
and wastewater.
• New efficient practices of fertilizer use and low-
emission fertilizers such as Niproxen in farms. Use of
coffee husk as organic fertilizer.
• Use of eolic energy in some
of the Cooperatives for
administrative buildings.

16. Technologies that are currently under
development or consideration
• Gasification or bio-energy using coffee
husks and coffee pulp to create heat to dry
the coffee beans and a later stage to create
electricity.
• Organic residues from water washing
process of from coffee is sprayed into the
fields versus using oxidation pools. This is
being tested both in the dairy and coffee
sector, in order to measure soil/pasture
absorption levels.